User:Jry13/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Fantasy literature

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate Fantasy literature because it is one of my favorite genres of literature, especially as a young reader. Some of the most successful children's literature fall under the fantasy genre, so I thought it would be interesting to explore.

Evaluate the article
This article has a strong lead. It has a concise, brief overview of the genre, including its most important elements and characteristics. It also gives good examples of successful fantasy books.

The article is broken down into different periods of fantasy literature. This is helpful and provides background, but I believe a more successful article would two separate articles on pre and post 1901 fantasy literature (the cutoff between premodern and modern fantasy works). Despite this, the article has a very strong detail on different periods, authors, genres, characters, and books that provides a strong overview of the genre. The tone of the article is neutral, factual, and straightforward. Because the article is explaining a straightforward topic, it does not try and persuade the audience of anything. It simply provides the history and facts about fantasy literature.

The sources are strong -- there are 79 sources that reflect fantasy literature and its sub genres (supernatural, romance, etc). The sources are largely from the 20th century (1970s-90s) which are less current, but I believe since this isn't a changing genre (necessarily), that is okay. The sources are a variety of books and articles.

As previously stated, the article is organized well by periods of fantasy literature. This could be split into two different articles, but for this it is organized well in chronological order.

The article is C-class on the Talk page. There is a good point that this article reads more as a history of fantasy literature, which upon reading this I do agree with. A more improved article could be talking about the different elements of fantasy and its representation in different mediums rather than the history.